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Lane was as chagrined as Sellars himself when he learned the result of that interview with Alma Buckley, for he had rather pinned his hopes on it. The great majority of people who engaged in wrong-doing were corruptible, as he had found by long experience. This middle-aged music-hall artist was a striking exception.
"Drawn into crooked paths by accident perhaps," he commented, "and makes loyalty to her pals her first principle or, equally probable, is too well paid by the other side to consider it worth while treating with us."